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All animals can predict the hedonic consequences of events they'veexperienced before. But humans can predict the hedonic consequencesof events they've never experienced by simulating those eventsin their minds. Scientists are beginning to understand how thebrain simulates future events, how it uses those simulationsto predict an event's hedonic consequences, and why these predictionsso often go awry.
1 Department of Psychology, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 2 Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gilbert{at}wjh.harvard.edu
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